Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Turkey's muzzled press was virtually forbidden to speculate on Koprulu's resignation, most observers knew that it was the outcome of a struggle for control of Istanbul's provincial Democratic Party organization. His opponent was Dr. Mukerrem Sarol, a gynecologist, who was dropped from the Cabinet last year under a cloud of influence-peddling charges. Dr. Koprulu had long held that Sarol should be purged from the party, and he was in fact ousted for a while. But of late Sarol has been more and more often in the company of Premier Adnan Menderes. Last...
American listeners have a chance to feast their ears on their native brand of electronic composition on the sound track of MGM's science-fiction extravaganza, Forbidden Planet (TIME, April 9). Composed and recorded by Manhattan's husband-and-wife team, Louis and Bebe Barron, it could hardly sound more appropriate. Its basic elements are a kind of trickling-water sound; a zipping effect, as if somebody were running his thumbnail along a comb; a high, ominous thrumming, something like the sound telegraph wires make when the pole is struck; a frightful, featureless roaring; and an effect that...
...village of Romlino last week, unschooled Communist peasants, long forbidden to put up tendentious signs, jubilantly pasted up a wall poster that said simply: "We put this up just for the hell of it." Italy's Communists were not the only ones celebrating the explosive first verdict of Italy's spanking new Constitutional Court...
...occupation forced on the Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages by the Christians, who were forbidden to lend money at interest - but not to borrow...
...Forbidden Planet. A spring cruise at the speed of light to Altair-4-a small, out-of-the-way planet with two moons, green sky, pink sand, personal robot service (TIME, April...